Sunshine Center receives 4-year grant to help kids

The Family Sunshine Center announced that it has received a multiyear grant to provide services to children who have suffered trauma through family violence or sexual assault.

CARES, or Children Advancing through Recovery and Empowerment Services, is a new program that provides cognitive behavior therapy to children who have witnessed family violence or been subjected to sexual abuse or assault.

Sunshine Center Executive Director Karen Sellers said the center is among a select few in the nation to receive the grant.

"(We) will be working closely with professionals in other states and communities to duplicate or establish best practices for serving children who are victims of trauma," Sellers said in a statement.

The grant money will pay for new and specific services and is not available to support the center's shelter and transitional housing for domestic violence victims or for other services the center provides, Sellers said.

The grant award is for $400,000 for up to four years depending on the availability of funding.

It will support five new positions within the agency and calls for a partnership with other entities such as Child Protect and the Montgomery County Department of Human Resources.

- Scott Johnson

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Sunshine Center receives 4-year grant to help kids

The Family Sunshine Center announced that it has received a multiyear grant to provide services to children who have suffered trauma through family violence or sexual assault.

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